Re: Catalog RMAN backups on Tape?

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:40:45 -0800

MOS 550082.1 documents the undocumented command syntax of CATALOG.

The Document is not available in MOS, though you may find this link
interesting:
http://erpondb.blogspot.com/2008/09/catalog-rman-backuppieces.html

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com
Home Page: http://jaredstill.com



On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was testing this on Linux - 11.1.0.7 but I thing that that command should
> work
> on 10g too as there is no syntax error for that syntax
>
> RMAN> catalog device type 'sbt_tape' backuppiece 'aaa';
>
> RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
> RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
> RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
> RMAN-03002: failure of catalog command at 01/29/2010 22:54:28
> ORA-19554: error allocating device, device type: SBT_TAPE, device name:
> ORA-27211: Failed to load Media Management Library
>
> I have to install SBT driver on Windows and Linux and tests it.
>
> Sorry I have no idea where in oracle doc you can find it as I didn't
> use any doc
> to figure out this syntax - it was just pure research ;)
>
> regards,
> Marcin Przepiorowski
>

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